Ns-3

Ns-3 - discrete event network simulator. Article “Ns-3” in German Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Ns-3”, its content was written by 8 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 236 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in German Wikipedia and cited 129 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #66028 in April 2020
• Global: #47501 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #556164 in June 2018
• Global: #183957 in March 2015

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) Ns (模拟器)		39.3097
2	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		35.3487
3	Turkish (tr) Ns (simülatör)		30.8968
4	Catalan (ca) Ns (simulador)		26.4908
5	German (de) Ns-3		25.1183
6	English (en) Ns (simulator)		24.0588
7	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		22.6126
8	French (fr) Network Simulator		17.8925
9	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		17.4181
10	Croatian (hr) Ns (simulator)		16.9252

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ns-3" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ns (simulator)		717 933
2	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		58 054
3	French (fr) Network Simulator		41 346
4	Chinese (zh) Ns (模拟器)		28 436
5	Japanese (ja) Ns (シミュレータ)		24 275
6	Portuguese (pt) Network simulator		15 197
7	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		14 100
8	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		13 227
9	German (de) Ns-3		6 464
10	Croatian (hr) Ns (simulator)		1 757

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ns-3" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ns (simulator)		793
2	Chinese (zh) Ns (模拟器)		91
3	Japanese (ja) Ns (シミュレータ)		87
4	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		59
5	Catalan (ca) Ns (simulador)		43
6	German (de) Ns-3		36
7	French (fr) Network Simulator		26
8	Turkish (tr) Ns (simülatör)		23
9	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		19
10	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Ns-3" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ns (simulator)		126
2	French (fr) Network Simulator		29
3	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		12
4	Japanese (ja) Ns (シミュレータ)		12
5	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		11
6	German (de) Ns-3		8
7	Croatian (hr) Ns (simulator)		7
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ns (simulator)		7
9	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		6
10	Portuguese (pt) Network simulator		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Ns-3" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Ns (simulador)		0
2	German (de) Ns-3		0
3	English (en) Ns (simulator)		0
4	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		0
5	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		0
6	French (fr) Network Simulator		0
7	Croatian (hr) Ns (simulator)		0
8	Japanese (ja) Ns (シミュレータ)		0
9	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Network simulator		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Ns-3" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ns (simulator)		58
2	French (fr) Network Simulator		19
3	Persian (fa) ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)		18
4	Japanese (ja) Ns (シミュレータ)		7
5	Spanish (es) Ns (simulador)		6
6	Catalan (ca) Ns (simulador)		5
7	Turkish (tr) Ns (simülatör)		5
8	Korean (ko) Ns (시뮬레이터)		3
9	Chinese (zh) Ns (模拟器)		3
10	German (de) Ns-3		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Ns (simulador)
de	German Ns-3
en	English Ns (simulator)
es	Spanish Ns (simulador)
fa	Persian ان اس (شبیه‌ساز)
fr	French Network Simulator
hr	Croatian Ns (simulator)
ja	Japanese Ns (シミュレータ)
ko	Korean Ns (시뮬레이터)
pt	Portuguese Network simulator
tr	Turkish Ns (simülatör)
uk	Ukrainian Ns (simulator)
zh	Chinese Ns (模拟器)

Best Rank

German: #556164 06.2018

Global: #183957 03.2015

Best Rank

German: #66028 04.2020

Global: #47501 11.2012

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